Jim Haslett
Jim Haslett
James Donald Haslettis an American football coach and former linebacker, who is currently the linebackers coach for the Cincinnati Bengals. Previously, he served as the head coach for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League, and the New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams in the National Football League...
defense except field goals kick league played win
The defense played well enough to win all day, except at the end. In this league you can't kick field goals and win.
felt fired last urgency
We were fired up all week. You could feel it. You felt it on the bus. You could feel it last night. Hopefully, we can keep that sense or urgency all year.
atlanta brought extremely guy last learn safety sign special teams
We wanted to sign him last week, but we couldn't find a roster spot. He's a guy that's extremely fast, very smart. He'll know Atlanta (this week's opponent) a little bit, but we brought him in to play special teams and learn the safety spot.
fell felt guy high pass rated
We were very surprised. He's a guy we had rated very high on our board. When he fell to us, we felt we couldn't pass on a guy like this.
came figure four hopefully months
We have four months of football, ... and hopefully we'll get through that and figure out where we're going to live, and hopefully it's where we came from.
behind confidence guys
We have confidence in the guys that we have behind (McAllister),
behind confidence guys signed
We have confidence in the guys that we have behind him (McAllister). That's why we signed Antowain (Smith) and (Aaron) Stecker.
bad dropped field five missed worse
We had 13 penalties, five turnovers, two missed field goals, dropped balls, missed tackles and bad coverage. It doesn't get any worse than that.
question
The question with him is if he can block.
general love
(New Orleans) isn't a big city, but they love the Saints. It's the only place I've been to where they know the players, the scouts, the general manager, the (team) personnel.
bring closure direction follow move time year
For all of us, it was a time to follow a new direction, to bring closure to what was a disappointing year record-wise and move forward.
advantage early football late stronger
It started, really, in Pittsburgh. They got an advantage on a lot of football teams. They were so much stronger (in the) '70s, late '70s, early '80s. They're the ones who kind of started it.
dead great
Then I'd probably be dead right now. He's one of the great all-time kickers. I never would have guessed this would happen.
depending staff talk tonight
That's something the staff will talk about tonight and tomorrow. We'll go with it as we see fit. There could be (changes), depending on what we see.